O let me go, Voronezh, O return me:
You will drop me, Voronezh, or neglect me,
You will let fall me down or put me back, —
Voronezh — whim, Voronezh — raven, knife...
Пусти меня, отдай меня, Воронеж:
Уронишь ты меня иль проворонишь,
Ты выронишь меня или вернешь, —
Воронеж — блажь, Воронеж — ворон, нож...
«Lord, send your comfort / to him who, during summerТs scorching heat, / like some poor beggar past a garden, / along a hot road drags his weary feet, who gazes in passing across a fence / at the shades of trees, at valleysТ golden grain / and at the inaccessible coolness / of softly b...»
«When natureТs final hour strikes / and earthly matter has disintegrated, / the visible universe will be flooded. / In the waters GodТs face will be reflected.»
«Est in arundineis modulatio musica ripis. The sea is harmony. / Shapely in debate, all elements cohere. / Rustling in the river's reeds, / musical designs inhere. Imperturbable form is the outward sign / of nature's utter consonance. / Only our spectral liberty / imparts a sense of dis...»
«She was sitting on the floor / sorting letters which were old, / holding them before she threw them out / like ash gone cold. Her look was strange / while she held those pages she knew so well, / as if she were a soul which peered down / at its abandoned shell. So many irreversible eve...»